Maurice Blanchot: Avant-garde icon or obscure authoritarian? How thirty years of controversy have stifled debate

Maurice Blanchot: Avant-garde icon or obscure authoritarian? How thirty years of controversy have stifled debate

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Controversy has surrounded Maurice Blanchot from Stethoscopes - Binaural Stethoscopes the 1980s to today.Whilst claims of excessive formalism, obscurity and radicalism were often levelled at his generation, the Blanchot controversy has been sustained by the failure of critics to dispassionately appraise his 1930s political commitments.However, recent interventions by Accent Table Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Surya and Lignes could end thirty years of stifled debate.